Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

2020.12.29 (Tue)

【#751】Start of New U.S. Administration Can Mark a Watershed for Japan

December 28, 2020 　 It is too timeworn to follow media’s year-end practice of selecting and commenting on the world’s 10 biggest news events of the past year. If I were to select only the biggest ...

2020.09.24 (Thu)

【#720】New Prime Minister Suga Lacks National Vision

September 23, 2020 　 New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has got a good start as his commonplace words of “working for the people” and “implementing policies speedily” have become popular, ...

2020.08.06 (Thu)

【#705】Tough U.S. China Policy Represents Reproach to Japan

August 3, 2020 　 U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech titled “Communist China and the Free World’s Future” at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California on July 23 was apparently o...

2020.07.22 (Wed)

【#702】U.S. Launches Rollback against China

July 20, 2020 　 Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi at his telephone talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov criticized the United States as breaking the basic rules of int...

2020.07.15 (Wed)

【#700】Heaven Helps Those Who Help Themselves

July 13, 2020 　 U.S. President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, who has authored a book pulling back the curtain on the Trump administration’s foreign policy, told in a r...

2020.06.10 (Wed)

【#686】Remembering Saburo Tsukamoto, Militant Liberalist

June 8, 2020 　 Not a small number of people still misunderstand the defunct Democratic Socialist Party as positioned between the conservative Liberal Democratic Party and the leftist former Japan So...

2020.06.03 (Wed)

【#685】Vague Diplomacy Originates from “Yoshida Doctrine”

June 1, 2020 　 About a half century ago, Britain’s Economist magazine made a bit of a topic by describing Japan’s diplomacy as “judo diplomacy,” pointing out that Japan pulls back when pressed and m...

2019.12.24 (Tue)

【#644】Amending Constitution is the Only Way to Cope with Great Transition

December 23, 2019 　 The year 2019 saw a great transition in the world’s postwar regime. It does not matter whether the transition is right or wrong, or whether it meets the established values or not...

2019.08.20 (Tue)

【#614】Constitution’s Article 9 Impedes Japan-U.S. Alliance

August 19, 2019 　 On the 74th anniversary of the end of the Pacific War, I feel that the world is entering a new phase as the international situation has been reversed since years just after the war...

2019.07.03 (Wed)

【#604】Japan Should Wake Up to “Third Black Ship Arrival”

July 1, 2019 　　　　　　　　　　“Japan’s fate was changed by the United States twice in history - the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry’s black ship in 1853 and Japan’s defeat by the U.S. in World War I...